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Just after release of version 1.4 I and others noticed some bugs. These should be fixed now.
A problem was that the XAJAX framework debugging was running. And that can be quit annoying.
A trans-coding problem, which made it impossible to stream. Except H.264. Which is not correct of course.
And a new feature is that the Wowza server can now be another server than the web server.
As of today there is a new version of Dreambox ReStream. It is version 1.4. Version 1.3 has never been released if you wonder....
This version supports now Flash streaming in H.264 video and MP4A audio. All you need a working Wowza Media Server. And the great thing is that it is FREE! For 10 concurrent users. So that should do. It can be installed on Windows and Linux.
For now it is not possible to have the Wowza server on a different server than VLC and the webserver.
Finally, all my video clips are converted with ffmpeg to flash movies. Unfortunately, I have to use the old flv codec because of the patents etc.... But to compensate that the bitrate is a bit higher to get the same quality.
The idea is that I want to stream music video clips. I like to listing to music, and some video clips are awesome... So now I can watch them over and over :). Also at work.
From now it is possible to have your own AJAX LiveCounter. Just add one line to your code and voila!
This is because it takes more than XX seconds to get all the data from your dreambox.
The solution is quite simple: Locate your php.ini file and open it with a text editor. Look for the line max_execution_time. It should say something like 30. Increase that number to 60.
Restart your apache to reload the php settings. Now you have 60 seconds the time to get the information from your dreambox. If this is still to less, just increase the number with 30 seconds each.